8,432 research outputs found
Colour your learning: Brain Cells
No full textSuzy J Styles (2018) Colour your Learning: Brain Cells. A colouring sheet introducing five different types of brain cells and the way they interact with each other. Learn about neurons, oligodendrocytes, protoplasmic astrocytes, fibrous astrocytes, and micro-glia. First developed for Brain Awareness Week 2018.
Original Colouring Sheet in UK English along with a growing collection of translations.
The 2020 Edition includes the following language versions:
• English UK: Styles SJ (2020)
• English US: Styles SJ (2020)
• Mandarin Chinese translation by Ke Han (transl. 2020)
• Malay translation by Nur Sakinah Bte Mohd Salleh (transl. 2020)
• Tamil translation by Eshwaaree C Yogarrajah (transl. 2020)
• German translation by Paul Mariella (transl. 2018)
• Turkish translation by Koyuncu Dilan Deniz (transl. 2020)
• Hindi translation by Masaldan Shashank (transl. 2020)
Neuroscientists and Science Communicators with different language skills are encouraged to contact the author if they would like to contribute further translations, or to suggest corrections to the published versions
Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool
No full textIn the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words within the context of a sentence, or talking freely off-the-cuff (Labov, 1966). When speakers have a complex task to achieve (e.g., describing everything they can see in a complex picture, speakers typically monitor their speech less, and default to more informal speech styles. We designed a picture description task called Green Grass Park to elicit a small sample of naturalistic speech. Along with other SESAME Research Tools, the Green Grass Park task was designed with multilingualism in mind.
This version of the task has been created for the Singaporean variety of Mandarin Chinese. It was designed to elicit the /y/ vowel and a targeted sibilant contrast
Illustrations by Seraphina Fong in collaboration with author tea
Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts
No full textChildren Reading Pictures has made a huge impact on teachers, scholars and students all over the world. The original edition of this book described the fascinating range of children's responses to contemporary picturebooks, which proved that they are sophisticated readers of visual texts and are able to make sense of complex images on literal, visual and metaphorical levels. Through this research, the authors found that children are able to understand different viewpoints, analyse moods, messages and emotions, and articulate personal responses to picture books - even when they struggle with the written word
The Effectiveness of Different Revision Approaches in Science on Achievement and Retention of Learners Having Different Learning Styles
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Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool
No full textIn the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words within the context of a sentence, or talking freely off-the-cuff (Labov, 1966). When speakers have a complex task to achieve (e.g., describing everything they can see in a complex picture, speakers typically monitor their speech less, and default to more informal speech styles. We designed a picture description task called Green Grass Park to elicit a small sample of naturalistic speech. Along with other SESAME Research Tools, the Green Grass Park task was designed with multilingualism in mind.
This version of the task has been created for the Singaporean variety of Malay. It was designed to elicit a coronal nasal contrast (alveolar/palatal) and a targeted vowel contrasts (a/e/schwa)
Illustrations by Seraphina Fong in collaboration with author tea
College Students’ Communication Apprehension and Adult Attachment Styles on Dating Apps
No full textThis study analyzed how adult attachment styles affect college students using dating apps. Participants (N= 316) provided responses that resulted in quantitative data regarding how their communication apprehension, dating app usage, and satisfaction when using dating apps play a role in their dating life. Findings revealed that attachment styles affect an individual's communication apprehension when they are on dating apps. Results also indicated that an individual's attachment style influences app usage as a dating app user. Interestingly, attachment styles affect how much satisfaction an individual gains from the relationships they establish on dating apps.Embargo status: Restricted to TTU community only. To view, login with your eRaider (top right). Others may request the author grant access exception by clicking on the PDF link to the left
Sci-comms project manual for open access infographics with Prof Primate
No full textSo, your prof has decided on a science communication project that combines images and text in the form of an infographic.
This manual is designed to help you get started on creating an Infographic for a class science communications project that will become an open access educational resource. The manual contains general sci-comms guidance, instructions for how to author and license your new open access work, as well as information about image rights and referencing, and a design guide. The design guide provides pointers to help you to combine text and images in ways that are interesting without being overwhelming for your audience.
The manual was first created by Prof Primate for students of ‘An Ape’s Guide to Human Language,’ a second-year course in Psychology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In our class, everyone is randomly allocated a primate as their target species for individualized project work. This means everyone in the class helps to build up our collective knowledge about primates, to be shared in a Festival at the end of semester. At the end of the manual are additional instructions for the Sci-Comms Project for An Ape’s Guide to Human Language in S2 of 2021, NTU Singapore. Prof Primate hopes this manual will be useful for students of all subjects, and may inspire more Profs to incorporate Open Access Comms projects (Sci-Comms, Ling-Comms etc) into their assessable work
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Teachers as readers in the 21st Century
No full textAbout the book: Acts of Reading is an enchanting and scholarly review of the history of reading and texts for children, from the 18th century to the digital age and beyond. They are examined through the eyes of their various audiences: the children, writers, teachers and parents, so as to explore the act of reading itself, whether oral, silent or performative, whether for pleasure or instruction. We see the changing representations of childhood over three centuries and the influence of the visual on reading. The genres explored include commonplace books, fairy tales, poetry, fiction, fables, picturebooks, Arthurian
legends, online messageboards, reading primers and A Very Pretty Story (1744).
This collection was inspired by Jane Johnson's unique 18th century nursery library, which sheds light on perceptions of childhood and texts for children at the time. It traces the progression of the ideas around reading and childhood past, present and future, looking at the 19tth century through classic children's literature. It shows how our expectations and ways of teaching are being modified as a result of the changes in the book and its relationship to other media, including multimodality and the digital
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Young British readers' engagement with manga
No full textThis thesis presents young British readers’ engagement with manga regarding literary, aesthetic, social, and cultural dimensions. The study explores young readers’ points of views of their reading preference – manga. I investigated how children interpreted manga, with respect to the artistic techniques, the embedded ideologies, and the cultural elements therein. I also looked into children’s participation in manga fandom and its social meanings. This allowed me to explore what attracted British readers to this exotic text. This study involved 16 participants from two schools, aged between 10 and 15, with genders represented equally. The participants were grouped by gender in each school. Each group of students received three group interviews based on three manga that they were required to read in advance. Individual interviews with each student followed the group interviews, and all the students were asked to keep reading reflections. The findings show that the attraction of participants to manga includes at least five dimensions. First, manga is a visually rich text, which not only had great power in rendering vicarious experiences to the students, but also allowed the struggling students to grasp the meanings of the text better. Second, both the verbal and the visual storytelling were characterised as fragmentary, which inspired the students’ imagination to join the creation of the story. Third, manga provided a temporary shelter where the participants could forget a stressful and frustrating reality. In addition, they felt that they gained renewed hope, refreshed energy, and insights to face potential challenges and difficulties in their lives. Fourth, the elements of Japaneseness and otherness made manga reading a rich experience of an exotic culture. Fifth, manga afforded collective pleasures in fan communities where the students could express their passion and gained a sense of identity
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